Shtibel, Shmuel

Son of Sarah and Joshua, was born in 1913 in the city of Kshanov in western Galicia, Krakow. At the age of eight he was orphaned and raised in a Jewish orphanage in Krakow. He went to work and to the wandering of a homeless man, joined the Zionist movement and was active in the Gordonia movement. On February 9, 1936, he immigrated to Israel and worked as a colonel. In 1940, he volunteered for a policewoman in the “Solel Boneh” and spent years in the army camps built by the company and at work sites in Haifa. During the first months of the War of Independence he continued to carry out his duties in guarding and defense and was killed in his service in Haifa on February 15, 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.